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EARLY IN April, 1902 found
the placer mining camp of Atlin in
a great stir.

At that time most of the placer
diggings were worked by individual
miners, the majority of whom owned
their own properties, or leased them
from some absent owner. There were
however, four or five large compan-
ies who worked groups of claims by
hydraulicing. Some of these compan-
ies would use three monitors and
employ quite a number of men,
working two 12-hour shifts.

One of these companies decided to
bring in Oriental labor to work their
large property, and do away with
the white labor entirely except per-

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haps for a foreman. The manager of
the company did not make his de-
cision in a hurry, nor did he make a
secret of it, and word traveled

around the camp of what he medi-
tated doing. All miners, both owners
of claims and any men they hap-

Walter Owen who was chief cf

the Atlin Detachment. Later he

became Chief Warden of Oakalla
Prison.

pened to be employing were deeply
incensed, and were determined that
the Atlin mining camp was not
going to be used as a base for cheap
labor.

At that time J. D. Graham was
the Gold Commissioner, but it so
happened that he was away on va-
cation, and Ned Thaine, his senior
clerk in the office was in charge.

There were three Provincial Police
in the camp, and a special constable
whose duty it was to work in the
court room and also guard prisoners.

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The Chief of that small detach-
ment was Walter Owen, who in
later years became Chief Warden at
Oakalla Prison. The second cons-
table was William Vickers, known
to all as “Billy’’ Vickers, and he
later became Chief of Police in
Prince Rupert for a number of years.
The third constable was Harry Heal
whom I believe not long after left
the force. The special was myself.

The company manager of this
hydraulic company carried through
his threat and some 38 Japanese
miners arrived over the ice on the
lake in two large horse sleighs.

Each of these Orientals carried a
.44 rifle with him, but whether the

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